I’m reading Alexander McCall Smith’s 44 Scotland Street series and I highly recommend them (I just finished book 2 of 4). Of course, his No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series (now an HBO series) is a classic.

Also…I love just about every book Christopher Moore makes. Admittedly not high brow, they’re the best vacation books. Pack them in multiples.

I loved The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society (I absolutely adore the title, too), I’m just reading The Revolutionary Road, but am a bit bummed out about it. The book is phenomenal but the emotions are so raw, sometimes it’s too much to take. I also just read The Graveyard Boo by Neil Gaiman (of Coraline fame) – and totally flipped out about it. It’s a book for kids, sort of, for Goth kids, and I do consider myself to still be very much a Goth kid.

P.S. I just realised that your blog is the first think I check out in the morning! And, yes, gulp, it’s 9.30 and I only just woke up!

I LOVED I Was Told There’d Be Cake, I hope you do too. I just read Revolutionary Road and I’m in the middle of Ten Bad Dates with De Niro. And I have Street Gang (about the history of Sesame Street), Once Upon A Time in England, Whatever Happened to Anna K, and Seven Days in the Art World in a pile beside my bed… I don’t quite know which one I’ll start next.

tina! i still have some books to send you…just can't seem to get to the post office! i'll have to check out the new one you're reading…it sounds fun. i'm finally back in a book club & i so enjoy having smart girlfriends to discuss books with…don't you?

I’m reading Mary Gaitskill’s new collection of short stories, “Don’t Cry” and a new literary biography “The Women In Faulkner’s Life”, all about the four great loves who influenced his art. . .fascinating and romantic.

I just finished up Shantaram, it is a roman à clef, pretty good. Also, sounds like you might enjoy David Sedaris, I’ve enjoyed Naked and Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim. Also, Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes is an ALL TIME favorite of mine!

goodness me, if you ever make it through all these hundreds of comments to mine… i’m reading “The Mitfords: Letters between six sisters” which is completely wonderful, they led such interesting lives!also if you’ve never read “a time of gifts” by patrick leigh fermor, then i recommend putting it on your list, it’s my favourite ever book (and that’s saying something – i read 2 or 3 a week!) x

How awesome is that bookshop! I’ve got a massive pile of library books next to my bed (won’t list them all here – got a list on my blog). But I’m a diehard for crime and mystery novels with a supernatural twist, and anything set in Victorian England. Halfway through John Connolly’s The Reapers – love it

I am reading/studying several books… These have been the top 3:“Aspects in Astrology” by Sue Tompkins, “Chiron and the Healing Journey” by Melanie Reinhart and “The New International Ephemerides”. It may sound boring but it’s quite the opposite! They’re great! :-)*

I was actually a little disappointed with I was Told There Would be Cake. I guess it’s because the book set unreasonably high expectation with comparing her to Sedaris on the cover. I’m actually rereading him right now. Beside that, just aesthetics related stuff for my philosophy class 🙂

I just found your blog via Lian Dolan’s site. I’m currently reading “The Amnesiac,” “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” and “Then We Came To The End.” Just finished “The Straw Men” and “The Killer Inside Me”. And “Duma Key”, which was long and yet, meh.

I recently loved The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Water for Elephants, The Historian (a vampire book for the literati!), and The Likeness by Tana French.

And I have to agree with the man who is navigating the vast seas of Atlas Shrugged. I revisited that fabulous novel a couple of years ago and was invigorated and inspired. Interestingly, people are shocked that I like that book. “But…you’re not a capitalist?” they say, in horror. Ayn Rand is about quality, craftsmanship, spine, and uncompromising standards, more than anything else. And those things I do believe in. The Fountainhead says it without the overly-alarming capitalist overtones.

Brilliant, wonderful writing by one of Sweden’s most famous authors, “The Price of Water in Finistère” by Bodil MalmstenIncredibly funny – but serious reading nonetheless, about identity (Swedish woman who moves to small village in France), agreeing to disagree, and – well, you have to read it.

Trust me…if you have to read a book read ” A thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini….this book is the best i have ever read.This writer is best at bringing out emotions.Everything is written so aestheticaly that you just cannot stop praising the author. The set up is in Afghanistan and the story of two women who fight for love ,freedom and justice and on their way find true friendship.Excellent Book!

Finished The Steep Approach to Garbadale (Iain Banks)last week and now I’m half way through Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence) and desperately yearning for a particularly annoying character to fall off a cliff. Once I’ve finished this I plan to raid the food budget and try to get hold of Jamie Ford’s best-selling debut novel from America which has yet to be published in England – come on publishers – sort yourselves out!

Right now I’m reading the collected works of William Blake (absoloutely amazing, he was a genius!) as well as the collected works of Oscar Wilde (done with Portrait of Dorian Gray and Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime and am almost through with the Canterville Ghost) and am also rereading The Witching Hour by Anne Rice.

Dunno why I bothered to tell everyone what I was reading, but whatever, I did haha

I love books about and by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette – she is one of my heroes. Also “Shadows on the Grass” by Isak Dinesen – a lesser known work than Out of Africa. She wrote it 30 years after returning to Denmark, she demonstrates such a love and respect for the Kikuyu people and the land, through a loving and unclouded lens. Very beautiful.Laurie Klaueastory on etsy

Being one who comes from a family of lighthouse keepers, I tend to be drawn to books about the sea, it’s lighthouses, and it’s keepers. At the present, I am half way through reading the book Stargazing, by Peter Hill. It is an account of a hippie turned lighthouse keeper during his summer break from college.Really an interesting read.

Hello! Tina~ I’m planning to read On Love And Death and The Double Bass by Patrick Suskind. I’ve read Perfume by the same writer long ago and love it a lot. Although the murderer seems less innocent but eviler than he was in the movie, the phylosophy is still fascinating.There’s another book recommended by my friend, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. We are both attracted by its Chinese name “The Stranger In The Lahore Cafe”…seems like totally different stories, right?~Hope I can get rid of these work and start reading soon…

One of my favorite reads lately is “Savage Beauty” by Nancy Milford, the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay…Very interestingCurrently reading James Lipton’s Inside Inside about the teacher/moderater of the show, Inside the Actor’s Studio.

I recently read 2666 by Roberto Bolano based on it being in a few different top 10 lists for 2008 (something that is typically out of character for me). It was challenging, amusing, dark, and, at many points, starkly beautiful.

Further to my earlier comment on this post, I got hold of Jamie’s book – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – someone sent it to me from America. Customs stopped it and sent it back but the second time it got through. I may be the first person in England to read it!

Just started reading it and it is a treat from the first page. Well worth its place on the New York Times Best Sellers List. Also, Jamie’s a sweetheart. Everyone should buy this.

I just finished reading City of Thieves by David Benioff. The story takes place in Russia during WWII. I found it hard to put down. When I finished the book I was sad that I could not read more. It has humor. lust, devastation and history mixed to perfection. Bravo!

I read books like I flip channels on the TV, I am always in the middle of 3 or 4. Just finished 'A Moveable Feast'(Hemingway) and 'The Girl Who Played With Fire'(Larsson) last week. In the middle of 'Origins'(Hall), 'The Beautiful Cigar Girl'(Stashower) and getting ready to start 'Nurture Shock'(Bronson/Merryman) and reread 'Revolutionary Road'(Yates)